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Building an Interactive India Map in Angular with OpenLayers — Plus Live Weather on States and…

Maps are one of those features that instantly make a dashboard feel “real.” In this post, we’ll build an Angular application that renders…

GIS and IM Hour, 6th August 2026 — #283

This week we talked about:

Smarter Navigation Starts Here: A Better Way to Explore, Drive, and Discover

Missing an exit, choosing the wrong road, or struggling to find an address can make any journey stressful. GPS Earth Live Satellite Maps…

GIS and IM Hour, 30th July 2026 — #282

This week we talked about:

After 3 Weekend Hikes, I Wanted to Visualise the Elevation -So I Built My Own Hiking Explorer using…

MapTiler ships an official AI agent skill: a package you drop into your coding agent so it writes MapTiler code the right way. I wanted to…

GIS and IM Hour, 23rd July 2026 — #281

This week we talked about:

How to Turn a Meaningful Place Into a Map Poster That Still Looks Good

A practical framework for choosing crop, labels, color, and personal details

How to Correctly Plot the Map of India in Python & JavaScript (With J&K and Ladakh)

A simple guide and a patched GeoJSON dataset to fix the missing or incorrect boundaries in standard mapping libraries.

GIS and IM Hour, 16th July 2026 — #280

This week we talked about:

Texas Takes Shape Receives National Recognition from the American Association for State and Local…

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is proud to announce that Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office has…

GIS and IM Hour, 9th July 2026 — #279

This week we talked about:

GIS and IM Hours, 9th April to 2nd July — #265 to #278

During those weeks, we talked about:

New Index Streamlines Navigating the Texas General Land Office’s County Boundary Files

Within the Texas General Land Office Archives, the County Boundary Files are a relatively small, niche area of research. Consisting of…

Beyond Google Maps: Why HERE API Deserves a Serious Look for Your Next Location Based Project

A Practical Guide to Building Maps, Routing, and Places Features Without the Usual Pricing Surprises

The Island That Fooled the World for More Than a Century

It appeared on maps, sent explorers searching, and convinced generations of cartographers that it was real

Exploring the Rhine Pt 6: The Rhone-Rhine canal

Wow this canal is older than both the Huningue and the Alsace, built between 1784 and 1833.

How Modern Mapmakers Create Maps for Government and Private Use

Understanding how technology and skilled professionals create accurate maps for everyday life

Organic Maps — Des cartes libres et respectueuses de la vie privée

Développée par les mêmes créateurs que MapsWithMe (ou Maps.Me), Organic Maps est une alternative open-source aux Google Maps et autres…

Why 525 Place Pages Still Do Not Mean “Coverage”

Fooglemap’s public sitemap currently includes 525 place pages across 46 city pages and 56 category pages. That sounds like coverage. It is…

Exploring the Rhine Pt 5— Upper Rhine Pt 3 -the Huningue Canal

This is getting interesting, so this canal is smaller, starts from Huningue, now a suburb of Basel, slightly further south than the Grand…

Learn Golang Step by Step: Slices, append(), len(), cap(), Structs, Maps, and Pointers

In the previous article, we learned about arrays and basic memory concepts.

Beyond Static Images: How to Embed Interactive Maps into Your Website or Portal

Are you still losing website visitors to boring, flat, static map images? When users encounter a simple screenshot or flat rendering of a…

Business vs Job: The Decision That Shapes More Than Your Income

Business vs Job: The Decision That Shapes More Than Your Income

Exploring the Rhine Pt 3 — the Upper Rhine

Continuing the journey along the Rhine, this is where it gets even more fascinating. Starting in Basel, the river runs northward and…

ObservableHQ Plot maps for beginners — with some AI help

Part 4: Lat Lon points + a few extras

ObservableHQ Plot maps for beginners — with some AI help

Part 3: Choropleth

ObservableHQ Plot maps for beginners — with some AI help

Part 1 : Setup

The Unexpected Rise of Navigating the Future: How AI is Transforming SEO for Google Maps

The Google Maps Effect: Changing How People Find Their Way

The Blue Line Sees What You Miss

Maps of Reality and Virtuality

From Navigation to World-Making

New Data Visuals That Surface What Matters — DataViz Weekly

Explore four recent data visualization projects in DataViz Weekly, featuring charts and maps that bring important data forward.

Creating a Soft Shadow Map Effect with QGIS and Tableau Map Layers

Would you like to create a map with a soft shadow, glowing edge, or raised-paper effect in Tableau? It may look complex at first, but the…

Combining Map and Chart APIs for Geo-Analytics Dashboards

Modern dashboards rarely rely on a single visualization.

A WordPress Contact Page Map — Without Google

A contact page often needs a map.

The Clever Heuristic That Re-Broke My Map

I build Wimemo, an app that turns your camera roll into a map of everywhere you’ve been — it plots your photos and draws the route of each…

Avoiding an AI Dystopia

It feels like I can’t peruse LinkedIn without seeing posts about massive spending of data centers and the insane CAPEX investments by big…

Escape to Paradise: Uncover Anguilla’s Hidden Gems in 36 Hours!

Scientists Create the First Global Map of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Networks

Their combined length is nearly half the distance from Earth to the centre of the Milky Way

80 types of charts for data visualization. Part 6: Geospatial & other charts

by Ivan Kilin — Data Visualization Specialist & Dieuwertje van Dijk — Data Visualization Designer @ Datylon

Rede social brasileira que mistura Reddit + Waze + Google Maps

Criei uma rede social chamada Xablim, que é uma mistura de Reddit, Waze e Google Maps.

America’s North vs. South Part Two

Modern Turf Wars

All About People over papers ICU Map update

Uncovering Hidden Histories: A Semester in Special Collections

Huirong Xiong, one of our placement students from the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, describes her experience…

Bagaimana Sistem Informasi Geografis (SIG) Membantu Dunia Industri?

Pernahkah kita berpikir bagaimana perusahaan logistik dapat mengirim barang dengan cepat, atau bagaimana sebuah perusahaan menentukan…

Membuat Peta Dasar Menggunakan ArcGIS, QGIS, dan Software SIG Lainnya

Peta merupakan salah satu komponen utama dalam Sistem Informasi Geografis (SIG). Sebelum melakukan analisis atau visualisasi data…

I have come to reclaim Rome…for my people! LiDAR – My new tech hobby…

I’ve recently discovered a fun new hobby that’s genuinely blown my mind – and I’m really enjoying doing it in my evenings.

Beyond Flat Web Maps: Exploring the 3D Evolution of Mapbox GL JS

How native glTF support, dynamic instancing, and altitude-aware data are changing the game for web-based geospatial development.

Muslim world in 1000 AD

1000 AD: Three major caliphates existing simultaneously (Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid). 2026 AD: Zero. A striking reminder of how drastically…

Vector maps for designers: the options, the workarounds, and what actually works

A practical breakdown of every option – stock libraries, GIS tools, tracing, and more – from a designer who’s been through them all.

Baato vs Google Maps: What the Data Actually Shows

We ran 561 real routes across Kathmandu and Pokhara, compared every metric that matters, and then inspected the divergences. Here’s what we…